On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:40:47 -0500, Chase, John wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if there's a way this listserver could filter these
>> "out of the office" messages we keep getting.
>
>Probably not. I've never received one from the listserv itself; they
>always come directly from the absentee, addressed to me. I doubt the
>listserv ever sees them.
>
At least some appear in the list archives. E.g:
Linkname: AUTO: James Obrizok is out of the office (returning 08/04/2008)
URL: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0807&L=ibm-main&P=179259
But take heart. IBM-MAIN's LISTSERV adds a header:
Precedence: list
I belive well-behaved MTA's do not send autoreplies to messages containing
such. It seems to be at least partly effective -- ASSEMBLER-LIST
supplies no Precedence: header, and I get several times more OoO
replies from ASSEMBLER-LIST than from IBM-MAIN.
I suppose a harsh list owner would unsubscribe anyone who autoreplies
to the list.
-- gil
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